Surgeon left needle in patient who died

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The family of a Tennessee man sued TriStar Centennial hospital alleging a surgeon left a needle inside his body during a heart surgery last year and was unable to retrieve it in a second operation. John Burns Johnson, 73, of Lafayette died approximately a month after the surgery, the lawsuit says. His health steadily worsened after the needle was lost in his body.

Firm recalls hundreds of water-based products for humans and pets due to microbial contamination

The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers and pet owners not to use drug products, including homeopathic drug products, made by King Bio Inc., Asheville, N.C., and labeled as Dr. King's, as these products may pose a safety risk to people (especially infants, children, pregnant women and those with compromised immune systems), as well as pets due to high levels of microbial contamination identified at the manufacturing site.

Hallsville school administrators ignored complaints for two years about bullying and harassment of a 13-year-old student who eventually took her own life, the girl’s mother charges in a recently-filed wrongful-death lawsuit.

Tesla Inc on Thursday reached an agreement to settle a class action lawsuit with buyers of its Model S and Model X cars who alleged that the company’s assisted-driving Autopilot system was “essentially unusable and demonstrably dangerous.”

She was a newlywed and a nurse who was coming back home to continue her studies. But Brittany Oswell never made it to Columbia. The 25-year-old Lexington woman died in a Texas hospital after suffering an embolism and going into cardiac arrest on an American Airlines flight from Honolulu.

Eight-year-old Treasure Brighon lingered for two months in a hospital before succumbing to injuries from a fire that ripped through her family's East Side apartment and killed two other people in 2016.

Her family, in a lawsuit, claimed their out-of-town landlord didn't provide working smoke detectors in the home.

Over $40 million has been awarded to a 6-year-old Pennsylvania girl whose spine was injured during birth. The girl and her twin sister were delivered at Delaware County Memorial Hospital in Drexel Hill in February 2013. During the delivery, in which the baby was in a breach position, the girl became paralyzed from the "mid-chest" down. Her parents alleged in the lawsuit that the doctor did not properly protect the baby’s head and neck during a high-risk procedure. The $40.3 million verdict is one of the largest jury awards in that county in recent years.

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